Anon Archived Analysis | What marijuana legalization did to car accident rates (washingtonpost.com)
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"The IIHS researchers compared claims in states that had recently legalized marijuana (Colorado, Washington and Oregon) with claims in similar neighboring states that hadn't."
'The IIHS report compared legalization states to their neighbors. '
'The authors of that study analyzed federal data on fatal car crashes from 2009 to 2015. “We found no significant association between recreational marijuana legalization in Washington and Colorado and subsequent changes in motor vehicle crash fatality rates in the first 3 years after recreational marijuana legalization,” they concluded. '
'On the one hand, a finding that legalization led to a small but significant increase in crashes. ', "But in the end, it's hardly surprising that choosing different comparison states will yield slightly different results on similar measures."
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